I have found over the years that the most important way of getting people to relax is self-deprecating humor.

I think the big problem is you have a vicious cycle of wealth and power in America that`s just gotten completely out of control and you`ve seen it in politics.

Social change occurs when the gap between the ideals that people hold and the reality that they see every day gets too large.

I was there in Washington in the `90s. It was pretty bad then. It`s much worse now [in 2015]. And that vicious cycle is you`ve got again big corporations, executives, Wall Street, very wealthy individuals in both parties who are calling the shots.

The Democratic Party is DEAD.

The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives.

If leadership is about anything, it's about leading. Not leading people back to where they already are, because they don't need that. They're already there.